¹⁴ David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

¹⁸ But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

⁴ Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

²⁰ Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

³ Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!

¹¹ You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

²⁸ and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

³⁴ Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

²³ And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

²⁵ "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

²⁷ David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song [with] the singers: and David had on him an ephod of linen.

¹⁸ The king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.

²¹ and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come you out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

⁵ and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

⁶ and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."